Rob's 12th Birthday Cake

It was my brother Rob's 12th birthday a few days ago, and he is slightly obsessed with smarties (well, any kind of chocolate to be honest) so I decided to make him a smarties cake. In order to theme it with his birthday, I thought it would be nice to make it in the shape of a 12 and then cover it in smarties:

The cake used is a very light but moist chocolate cake, from a friends recipe entitled 'troepe koek' meaning a troop cake - a very appropriate title considering the size of the cake it produces. It has to be cooked in a roasting tin because of the huge quantity of mixture!
Both numbers could be cut from the one cake, and are sandwiched with cream and black cherries and then topped with chocolate buttercream and decorated with 5 pack of smarties.
This cake was very well received by all the boys at Rob's party, and the cake is firm enough to be cut up and placed in party bags. Pretty fun to make as well, if a little time consuming.